Banker and the bagpiper

Lavonia — A bagpiper visited North Georgia Bank Monday morning to honor Margaret Ayers. “Margaret has been my banker for 25 or more years,” said Michael Scott, wearing traditional Scottish dress. “And she’s never made a mistake.” Scott, who lives in Newnan, said Ayers handles his mail-in deposits at the bank and often leaves notes about his math on the deposit slips that she mails back to him. Ayers was shocked that a bagpiper came to the bank to play for her, and said she didn’t recognize him at first, because she remembered Scott as the little boy she first met many years ago. Scott said they are both “throwbacks” to when banking was personal. His father told him the most important thing for a businessman to do was to establish a relationship with a banker, and to use that relationship as a partnership.